On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:33:31 +0000, Larry wrote in
:

My cellular provider, Alltel, is being swallowed by the most dispicable
company in America, Verizon Wireless....5GB/mo for $60 + 25
cents/MEGABYTE over that limit....$250/GB! That isn't going to happen.

We have a new carrier on CDMA with EVDO called Cricket. Unlimited
service is really cheap in limited areas, one of which I live in.
Cricket only has one model of USB cellular modem and won't permit
tethering via bluetooth to my Nokia N800 Linux tablets (2), so I've
looked around and found a grand solution!

http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-02/...000-best-evdo-
router-ever/

The cellular phone modem (upper left in picture grey plastic) is plugged
into this magic box, which is a real router with the added feature of a
USB modem port that the cellular connects to. 256 wifi users can now
share the one cellular modem's limited bandwidth over regular wifi.

I borrowed the router from a company here until mine is delivered and
signed up for the $40/month Cricket (www.mycricket.com) EVDO cellular
modem $59.

Wherever I go, my car now creates a wifi hotspot I can use up to about
35 meters from the car to my Nokia N800 Linux tablets. Both tablets can
be connected, simultaneously, and use the same internet connection,
which on little Cricket is about 300-700Kbps on the street. It even
works great underway as the car drives around because wifi doesn't
handoff but cellular does.

My SSID on the wifi is W4CSC/MOBILE and it's wide open....help yourself.
...

Good way to discourage carriers from offering unlimited access in the
future. [sigh]

--
Best regards,
John Navas, publisher of Navas' Sailing & Racing in
the San Francisco Bay Area http://sail.navas.us/